“In Death Stranding I’m just a puppet.”
Famed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who’s working with Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding, briefly spoke to IGN about Kojima Productions’ upcoming title, actual gameplay of which he expects to see in the not too distant future.
“It’s been great as a friendship, and it’s been great as a learning experience,” del Toro said of working with Kojima in a recent interview with IGN. “In Death Stranding I’m just a puppet. I don’t know what he’s gonna make me do. He’s supposedly going to show me the gameplay at some point in the next couple of weeks.”
Prior to working with Kojima on Death Stranding, del Toro aided in the creation of P.T., the playable teaser for what would have been Silent Hills. “My most rewarding experience was to know him and help him realize P.T., which never happened on Silent Hills,” he said.
The filmmaker also worked on a game at THQ called Insane, which was another one of del Toro’s project that never saw the light of day. Del Toro called it “a very good learning experience,” and said it “was really defining for me.”
Del Toro believes they were “a little ahead of the curve” with Insane. “I’ve seen some of our concepts crop out in other games. And I don’t know if that’s an accident, or if it’s a coincidence, or what it is. But it’s very nice to see that what we were going to try, was doable,” he said.
For more from our interview with del Toro, find out what he shared with us about his canceled Pinocchio project.
In addition to del Toro, Death Stranding will feature characters based on the likenesses of Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen. For an early glimpse at what to expect from Kojima Productions’ highly anticipated action game, which is being built on Guerrilla Games’ Decima Engine, check out this stunning graphics demo for Death Stranding.
Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @alexcosborn.